find command with -exec options

find command is quite a handy tool for file searching. It can also include an command to execute for matched file with

1) -exec command ;

2) -exec command {} +

Both are different.

Let say you have 3 files, a b c in the directory.

#find . -exec echo '{}' >> tmp1 \;

output in tmp1 will be :

.

./b

./a

./c

./tmp1

#find . -exec echo '{}' >> tmp2 \+;

output in tmp2 will be :

a b c

with + all matched file will be append and execute once.

with ; all matched file will be execute for each matching.